This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pence, Crittenden Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1645 Message Board Post: Barry Adage, Barry, Pike Co. IL, Friday, July 9, 1880: "There was a sad and pathetic scene on a Missouri Pacific train last Monday night. An old man named John Pence and wife, of Barry, Illinois had been to Kansas to visit a son and on their way home, after the train had past Warrensburg, the old man was taken quite ill, and Col. Crittenden and a couple of other gentlemen on the train went to his assistance and did what they could for him, but they soon saw that death was nigh. When Col. Crittenden informed the aged wife that her husband would soon die, she knelt down in the car and offered an eloquent and pathetic prayer, during which time the chains of death prevailed and there were no dry eyes. The old man, who was 77 years of age, died in about a half hour, and the remains were taken off at Sedalia, placed in a coffin and passed through here Tuesday, enroute to Barry (Monroe City, MO)